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Myles Borne and Tavion Heights Capture NXT Tag Team Championship

The victory gives Borne two NXT titles at once and creates immediate booking questions about how he will balance tag team and singles obligations.

Overview

  • The tag title change took place on the August 4 edition of WWE NXT, when Tavion Heights and Myles Borne defeated Vanity Project to win the NXT Tag Team Championship.
  • Heights secured the pinfall over Ricky Smokes after an in-ring sequence that followed an attempted outside assist involving Myka Lockwood.
  • Borne had earlier retained the NXT North American Championship on the same show, making him a double champion in NXT following the tag win.
  • The win marks Tavion Heights’s first title in WWE, and he posted an emotional Instagram message saying the moment meant more to him than most fans could imagine.
  • Vanity Project’s 161-day reign, which began with a February title win over DarkState, ended at the Performance Center on NXT television as confirmed by WWE and reported by Fightful and Cageside Seats.